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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Allow creating allow/deny list of system calls possible by fenced external routines

This will secure the database further from malicious users trying to break out into the host running managed Db2 services on Cloud. This can be done using:1. seccomp() before spawning the db2fmp process and 2. Making more secure SELinux policies f...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Allow native support of user-defined collation such as EBCDIC in CREATE DATABASE command

This will allow easy creation of databases on LUW supporting EBCDIC collations which will in-turn allow easy migration for Db2 on z/OS to Db2 LUW. Currently, this is only supported via the user-defined option of sqlecrea() api and a C program has ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

WQ - Delta Lake format support

WQ/BigSQL supports hive style partitioning, but but it does not support delta lake format at the present time. For example, today we can query data stored in parquet files on ADLS. It would be fantastic to extend this to support the new Delta Lake...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

To expose Scoring.status() as REST API

To expose Scoring.status() as REST API
over 1 year ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Not under consideration

Support of formula TM1PRIMARYDBNAME() in PAW and TM1Web

In PAX we are using formula TM1PRIMARYDBNAME() to detect the current TM1 server / instance. In PAx this formula works fine, but neither in PAW nor in TM1Web this formula is supported.It would be great to support this function, as we're publishing ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to merge data in data sets instead of overwriting

Currently when edit data set in My Data Sets in the way to upload a new file into existing DB then existing data in DB will be overwritten. The ability is requested to be able to merge the new data with existing data in DB. A comfortable way would...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW: Assign colors to elements

It would be great to have the option to centrally assign a color to an element in a dimension. i.e. Actuals are always black, budget always blue, forecast always green. These colors could then show up by default in any charts and maybe also as fon...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

PAfE - In an exploration directly to the deepest member defined in the set

The desire to have the ability to expand directly to the deepest member defined in the set during an exploration
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Shift Click to Select Multiple Rows when in Preview View

We would like to select multiple rows when in Preview View. Typically we do this by holding down the shift key while clicking on additional rows. Example: when in report preview view, the user cannot select the top data row, and then shift-click t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create user interface for --#SET ACCEPT_RC override

Allow user to specify one or more acceptable SQL return codes in the MIG process prior to the DDL being generated.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration